Mistresshood
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The role or status of a mistress. uncountable
"Bertha's madness represents the limit case of mistresshood — the worst possible end of a dependent and degrading marriage — but its more gruesome aspects work, paradoxically, to distract the reader […]"
Example
More examples"Bertha's madness represents the limit case of mistresshood — the worst possible end of a dependent and degrading marriage — but its more gruesome aspects work, paradoxically, to distract the reader […]"
Etymology
From mistress + -hood.
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